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Tuesday, October 2. 2012

A Charles Murray mini-festival

A pal had never heard of Murray. Here's an introduction. I find his thoughts about "social capital" most interesting but, on many topics, he is a hard-headed, liberty-oriented thinker.


Here are a few of our Murray links from very recent years:


Class, Social Capital, and Character Traits


The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism


The age of educational romanticism - On requiring every child to be above average.


The New American Divide


Kay Hymowitz on White Blight


Do We Need the Department of Education?


Belmont & Fishtown - On diverging classes in the United States.


Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem - Charles Murray examines the cloud now hanging over American business—and what today's capitalists can do about it.


Three Reasons Colleges Are Oversubscribed


Abolish the SAT


Interview with Robinson on his latest book:


 


Posted by Bird Dog in Politics, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 16:45 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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A superb interview. Thank you to the producers and Maggies for bringing it to my attention. Although I might disagree that Faith has an important part to play in happiness (I think although such brainwashing is socially cohesive it leads to much misery, destruction and an inability to think for oneself) I agree with the other 95% of the points made. The Welfare State is alright up to the point of safety net but once it passes into the acceptable realm of routine handouts it does become totally destructive of happiness. The author alludes to the control of the Democratic Party in the USA by the MSM. Are the Republicans even electable in the current situation? My final comment regards the central parameter of the book - "non-Latino White". A rapidly diminishing proportion of the Western world both in terms of genetics but also culture and religious culture.
We are disappearing so quickly we will soon become irrelevant in terms of the nation states.
#1 thehawkreturns on 2012-10-02 21:28 (Reply)
It was an interesting discussion of the cultural decline of the white middle and lower class. Left/Right politics was pretty well left out of it.
#2 feeblemind on 2012-10-04 11:02 (Reply)

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